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David Byrne Quotes

As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: scottish
Birth: May 14, 1952

Topics

Become More Everything Things Idea

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Romantic Beard Tradition Young Wears

My mom really raised me, so I took her name before I ever thought about having a career. It was for personal reasons. My birth name is actually Max Deitch.

Me Mom Thought Name Career Personal

And a lot of the artists and people that we hired were fans of Transformers growing up, so having so many fans working on my crew really kept me on point.

People Me Growing Up Growing Fans

I love horror because you can never just sit back in your seat. You always have to be on the edge of it.

Love You Back Edge Horror Never

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Person Kind Neither Reverent

The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility.

Steve Jurvetson

Beauty Growth Art Evolution Organic

Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically - me and Nick - said what would we do, where would we head?

Me World Think End Person Escape

I work out at Runyon Canyon almost every morning.

Work Morning Canyon Out Work Out

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.

Knowledge Ideas First Programming

I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything I see gets transformed into a private sketch or painting in my mind, stored away for future reference, future evidence, future ammunition.

Rosemary Mahoney

Future Vision Quality I Am Mind Me

I married someone I didn't love. I was too polite to say no.

Love Someone Say Married Too Polite

My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.

Death Creative Singing Voice Obvious

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